Washington Fastpitch Academy Welcomes New Softball Director Ashley Carter
Washington Fastpitch Academy is excited to announce Coach Ashley Carter has been named the new Director of Softball. Coach Carter brings years of softball coaching experience to the Washington Fastpitch Academy program. Coach Carter is a graduate of Grambling State University earning her Kinesiology degree (2008) and her Sports Administration Master’s Degree (2010).
Coach Carter began coaching in 2011 as the La Cueva High School head coach in New Mexico, where they reigned as the District Champions and competed in the state tournament, all four years of her tenure as head coach. Players from her program went on to play in Division-I, Division-II and in the NAIA, all while holding GPA’s of 3.6 and above.
In 2015, she joined Menlo College as an assistant coach and quickly graduated to be named the head coach at Notre Dame de Namur University a year later. Coach Carter returned to Menlo College in 2018 as an assistant coach and also was added to the College staff for two seasons before moving to the Northwest where she was named head coach at Shoreline Community College. In 2022 Coach Carter was hired on as an assistant coach at the University of Washington where she assisted with the team’s offensive development.
In addition, Coach Carter will be bringing her experience in mental strength training for our athletes. Coach Carter is the owner of LeadHership Athletics, where she teaches female athletes how to become confident leaders through sport.
Her mission in life is to arm athletes, students, teams, coaches, and teachers with the identity, confidence, and mental skills they need to succeed at anything in life, not just the game or society's perception of success.
MISSION
To provide high-level coaching and foster the best possible learning environment teaching our family of athletes the fundamentals of the game of fastpitch, and cultivating the desire in each player to compete at the highest level.
We want our athletes to develop the work ethic and discipline it takes to play a team sport competitively, along with teaching the importance of sportsmanship while striving to develop complete athletes on the field and even better people off the field.
Washington Fastpitch Academy is a Seattle select fastpitch softball program operated out of Go Time Athletics located in West Seattle and Georgetown. It is part of the Washington Athletic Academy along with Washington Baseball Academy and Seattle Volleyball Academy.
